Projects

Trigger are shapeshifting creatives who dream-up, create and produce bold and brave live and digital events.

TEABREAK

Catch your breath and enjoy a free, freshly made brew in this heart-warming new show by Trigger. 

An original audio score and live dance performance gently explore the story of tea; how it came to be here, what it means to us and what its real cost is.

Each Tiny Drop

Honour our connection to water – and to one another – in this joyful gathering, a new collaboration with artist Risham Syed for the opening of Manchester International Festival.

PoliNations

We co-created a spectacular super garden of epic proportions in Birmingham city centre, bringing live music, poetry, workshops, light shows, unexpected plant origin stories in a magical free festival where everyone is invited!

The Hatchling: Platinum Jubilee

The Hatchling led the cultural celebrations along The Mall and outside Buckingham Palace at the Platinum Jubilee Pageant on Sunday 5th June!

The Hatchling : Plymouth

An incredible work of scale that launched in Plymouth on 28 & 29 August 2021.

GROW

Unearthing the tangled history of botany, plant use and ownership in a radical, cross-continental R&D process!

GROW is a global conversation about concept touring, using the joint interests in landscape and growing as a core area of exploration.

The Hotel (working title)

The Hotel is a brand-new project created to support the wellbeing of asylum seekers holed up in hotels across North Somerset, through a creative and co-led cultural programme including writing, music, dance, circus, and theatre.

Previous projects

WithYou

A digital service created to support isolated patients by bringing voice messages and playlists from their friends and family together on one playable digital audio album.

Rock Pool

Inspector Sands

Rock Pool is an audio adaptation of Inspector Sands’ successful stage show - winner of Sprout! Commission. It is a funny and touching series with songs for 4-7 year olds and their families/carers.

Dealing with themes of isolation, boredom, upheaval, overcoming difference and the climate crisis. It’s a sort of crustacean Waiting for Godot for kids.

Imaginary Advice

Ross Sutherland

The Imaginary Advice podcast is a sketchpad for new ideas and new ways of telling stories. Some stories are true, some are fiction, some are closer to audio essays. Most episodes end up being a blend of all three.

Featured artists include Kim Noble, Vanessa Kisulle and Emmy the Great

Stream via iTunes or Soundcloud or Stitcher.

Curio

Savinder Bual and Elena Blanco 

Curio is an ambient light installation and portable museum. Curious passersby can peer through letterboxes to discover objects contributed by our neighbours. 

Commissioned by Farnham Maltings, Bristol City Council, Illuminate Light Festival and funded by Arts Council England.

Visit

Visit was a programme of bespoke performances which traveled to people who find it difficult to get out and about. Commissioned artists: Josie Long, Gary McNair, Molly Taylor, Tam Dean Burn, Wounded Knee.

Partners: Alzheimers Scotland, ECAS Edinburgh, Glasgow Housing Association, MS Support and Enable Scotland. Funded by Creative Scotland.

How to Choose?

Written and performed Davey Anderson and Gary McNair.

In the run up to the independence referendum 2014, Gary McNair and Davey Anderson looked a little deeper into the question of how we choose. Can we ever know what the right decision is?

Funded by Creative Scotland

Festival Detours

Festival Detours was a series of intimate live performances in Edinburgh’s leading galleries. Each year we invited performers to respond to their favourite artworks featured in the EAF programme. Performers included Simon Munnery, Joe Dunthorne, Frightened Rabbit Inua Ellams, Gary McNair and Nic Green.

Festival Detours was commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival